15-year-old charged with homicide

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A 15-year-old Shippensburg, Pa., youth was charged Wednesday with homicide in the shooting death of a Newburg, Pa., teenager whose body was found in his mother's car.

Patrick Louis Traini previously had been charged with causing or aiding suicide in the death of Chad Andrew Nace, 17.

Traini was arraigned on the homicide charge before District Justice John Weyman on Wednesday afternoon and committed to Franklin County Prison without bail.

Franklin County District Attorney John F. Nelson said that Traini must be tried as an adult on the criminal homicide charge.

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Nelson said that after reviewing the matter, he felt a charge of criminal homicide was more appropriate in this case.

He would not elaborate.

Traini had been held at the Schaffner Youth Center in Harrisburg, Pa., on the earlier charge.

Nace, of 1 Zion Road, in Newburg, Cumberland County, was found dead Nov. 5 in a Franklin County trailer park at 7500 Molly Pitcher Highway.

A Pennsylvania State Police trooper who responded to the scene at 6:35 p.m. found Nace's body in the driver's seat of his mother's 1995 Saturn, which was parked at Lot No. 62, according to the affidavit of probable cause filed in Weyman's office.